Candice Osborne

I feel that Powerpoint has been misused since it was introduced into the teaching/instrucing media aides. Some instructors will use it as their main teaching aide where I think it should be used for making a bigger point to your sudents when instructing on certain subjects. Powerpoint is not a class baby-sitter but rather an attention getter. Instructors will a lot of time make this much longer than it should be so that students start to fall asleep in class and then it becomes a disruption to the class instead of an aide. Powerpoint should be a brief, colorful, illustrated,… >>>

I feel that when reading about using colored handouts that it is a wonderful idea. Using colors helps me able to get the students attention and keep it when passing out papers. The brighter the color, I find is more eye catching so they tend to go longer with being quit and looking over the information. I have noticed also makes the student think that this piece of paper is more important than all the white papers that had been passed out. White is so dull. It is also very helpful when refering back to a paper that has been… >>>

I have a student that was very inattentive during every term but with devotion and attentiveness on my part to her, she has done great with continuing out of my class. She used to come back from breaks late by 10 min or more. She was never engaged in any class activities on her own free will. I took the time to get to know her a little bit without showing any favoring. She is very young and has many things going on in her life outside of school. We came to an understanding and worked together with her to… >>>